I don't understand how Less Wrong can be a small researcher community of any kind whatsoever. Either the community members are actually researchers, which means

I don't understand how Less Wrong can be a small researcher community of any kind whatsoever. Either the community members are actually researchers, which means they're part of the real research communities, or they're possibly quite intelligent, well-read people who speculate about causal hypotheses related to publicly-known current day science, but don't conduct any research.